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réf. 3830, Simmons-Boardman USA, 1946, Original cloth binding, 22x30cm, 1444pp
réf. 3836, Simmons-Boardman USA, 1953, Original cloth binding, 21x30cm, 1272pp
réf. 3834, Simmons-Boardman USA, 1974, Original cloth binding, 21x28cm
1979réf. 014805Paris Gallimard NRF 1979 In-8 Broché Dédicacé par l'auteur
1941réf. 86282Pontiac Michigan: Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company c1941. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. 16 pages. Illustrations. RARE Surviving copy. Cover has some wear and soiling. Name and address of previous owner stamped on cover page. Name and rank of previous owner stamped on first page. The previous owner was a 2nd Lt. TC CE which is understood to refer to the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. Marked RESTRICTED. Published for The National Defense Research Committee. This addresses what the DUKW is Equipment Oil Gas and Water Vehicle Inspection DUKW Driving including sand operation tire deflation laying the Track and turning etc. Getting into the Water including the Load and Driving Wheels In the Water include steering and Reversing Mooring Alongside Ship and Coming Out of the Water. Admonishes the Driver to Don't Try the Impossible and When in Doubt Deflate. The National Defense Research Committee NDRC was an organization created "to coordinate supervise and conduct scientific research on the problems underlying the development production and use of mechanisms and devices of warfare" in the United States from June 27 1940 until June 28 1941. Most of its work was done with the strictest secrecy and it began research of what would become some of the most important technology during World War II including radar and the atomic bomb. It was superseded by the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941 and reduced to merely an advisory organization until it was eventually terminated during 1947. The Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company informally Yellow Coach was an early manufacturer of passenger buses in the United States. Between 1923 and 1943 Yellow Coach built transit buses electric-powered trolley buses and parlor coaches. Founded in Chicago in 1923 by John D. Hertz as a subsidiary of his Yellow Cab Company the company was renamed "Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company" in 1925 when General Motors GM purchased a majority stake. After GM completely acquired the company in 1943 it was merged with GM's truck division to form the GM Truck & Coach Division. The car rental subsidiary known both as Hertz Drivurself Corp. and Yellow Drive-It-Yourself was purchased back by John Hertz in 1953 through The Omnibus Corporation and floated the following year as The Hertz Corporation. Yellow Truck & Coach division was selected to produce the 2-1/2-ton CCKW 6-cylinder 6x6 truck without a doubt one of the two most important vehicles of the war and numerically the most important. In addition to its use by US Forces the CCKW was supplied under Lend-Lease to Canada Britain and Free France. Available in two wheelbases the standard CCKW cargo truck was the most popular other variants included a water tanker gasoline tanker machine shop bomb transporter radio truck dump truck tippable cargo body and fire truck. Most memorable was the amphibious DUKW variant of which 2000 examples were built by Yellow Coach. Designed to make the transition from ship to shore more tolerable innumerable uses were discovered and they remain the only World-War II era vehicle in regular use today. Tour operators continue to operate the 60 year-old-vehicles on a daily basis. The hard work of Yellow Truck & Coaches' employees during the War was honored by an Army-Navy "E" award on June 2 1944. The Army-Navy Award for Excellence in War Production was typically normally awarded when a firm completed a large order for the US War effort or filled an order in a short period of time. At the ceremony the employees would be given an enameled pin mounted on a card certifying their contribution to the war effort with a message from the president. The employer would be presented with an “E’ flag and banner and outstanding employees would be presented with a special certificate. Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company paperback
80 pages. Features: Karsh cover photo-portrait of Jean Sibelius; One-page Canadian General Electric radio ad shows the Models C122, C602, C352, C400 and C751; Moffat appliance ad features photo of Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, his wife and dog, plus photos of their kitchen and home; Where the Yanks Rule a Part of Canada - Americans at their Newfoundland base can flout our courts, even seize our citizens - and it's all quite legal; How Karsh Photographed Europe's Great; Ordeal By Snow (fiction); Taming the mighty Ottawa River with the Des Joachims dam project - article with photo; Is There a Killer in the Crowd? - Canada has at least 300 who have not been caught; Fortune in a Million Figures - Rose Starkman came to Canada in 1937 with $20, married Hy Marx, and they now sell $1 Million annually of Rose Marx Braz, the only Canadian brassiere sold in bulk in the U.S.; Stop This Fire Death Sacrifice! - firey death of 139 on pleasure steamer Noronic at Toronto's Pier 9; My Papooses Got Pyjamas - life in a Red Cross outpost at Armstrong, 100 miles north of Fort William; Beauty and the Brakeman (fiction); A Firsthand account on the new Britain under Socialism, by John W. Vandercook; TCA (Trans-Canada-Airlines) one-page ad with piggy bank; How to Retire and Like It; Nice colour Coke ad shows youth lunch scene and ice chest stocked with Coke; Bold one-page colour ad for Champion spark plugs features dog with ear muffs; Plymouth car ad; Westinghouse radio colour ad features the Rideau; Kleenex ad features Little Lulu and Tubby; Half-page Eveready battery ad features policeman Joseph Moreau of St. Lambert, Quebec; Photo of load of diesel from Moose Jaw Refineries crossing into the U.S.; Great back cover colour ad for B.C. Apples; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1948réf. R44075Voorhout, Foreholte 1948 75pp., roodlinnen band, stofwikkel, R44075
réf. 4057, New York, Simmons-Boardman, 1946 seventeenth edition., Original cloth binding, 22x30cm, 1444 pp.
112 pages. Features: Nice 1/2 page color Fatima cigarette ad; 1-page color Hudson car ad - circus scene; 1-page color Maxwell House coffee ad features illustration of band practicing in the living room; Nice 1-page color ad for Zenith radios; 1-page color ad for Kelly Springfield tires features lady swimmer; RPM Delo ad features nice color photo of excavation scene in rugged territory; Renegade Canyon (fiction); The Man Who Hunts Old Bones - photo-illustrated article about Dr. Edwin Harris Colbert, curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Schoolgirl in Pursuit (fiction); G.I. Jim's In Love with Paris - color-photo illustrated article about the 1,300 American veterans studying and living under the G.I. Bill of Rights in Paris; Night of Trial (fiction); Senator Paul Douglas - Hard-boiled idealist - article with photo; We Bucked the Ice Pack - aboard the U.S.S. Edisto icebreaker as it ventured to previously unexplored waters - article witih photos; New help for that headache - combining medicine with psychiatry; Get That Rig Through (fiction); Tales of the Talking Taxis - photo-illustrated article explains how two-way radios are improving life for taxi drivers; Botts and the Brink of Disaster (fiction); Is Japanese Youth Going Communist? - photo-illustrated article; 1-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco man Dan Currin of Oxford, NC; Nightmare in Manhattan (fiction); 1-page color ad for Oldsmobile cars featuring the new 'Holiday' coupe; 1-page color ad for De Soto cars features the new 'Carry-All' sedan; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features blind-folded woman smoker; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford Trucks features photos Howard Johnson of hotel chain fame; Nice color-photo Kodak ad with rugged scenery in background; 1-page Chevrolet ad features the Styeline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Nice centerfold color ad for Mobilgas; 1-page color ad for RCA Victor televisions features Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; 2-page color ad for General Motors (GM) shows their range of products; Nice half-page color-photo ad for Florida orange juice; 1-page ad for Northwestern Mutual features photo portrait of Walter Geist, President, Allis-Chalmers; Nice 1-page color ad for TWA shows happy children in flight; 1/2 page color ad for Meadow gold ice cream; 1-page color Gulfpride motor oil ad shows new car by lighthouse; Nostalgic half-page 2-color ad for Elmer's of New Orleans features their Mint Bublets and Chee-Wees; Nice 1/2 page color ad for Beech-Nut gum; Sunkist oranges ad on back cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
1997réf. 127658Contemporary Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. Hard Cover. H421 . Contemporary Books hardcover
1959réf. k3169Cowley, (1959). farbig illustrierter Faltprospekt. ZUSTAND 1.
1965réf. 90342Köln-Braunsfeld. (Ohne Jahr. Um 1965). 8 seitiger Faltprospekt. Mit mehreren farbigen Illustrationen. (Gelocht). 28x22 cm
Book shows considerable wear with stained and mottled covers, bumped and worn corners, sun faded spine, super just barely showing at pre-title page, occasional stain to pages, otherwise text/interior is clean and free of marking. Contents include: Black shiny FBI shoes, Rusky-dusky neon dust, The bus, Unauthorized acid, The crypt trip, The unpoken thing, The bust, The Hell's Angels,Cosmo's Tasmanian deviltry, The Mexican bust, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a drug saturated group of hippies, trouble with the law. 416 pages. pushing, ballooning heart of the matter , Vibrating dazzle; "[a]mong journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm" -- (Newsweek).
Front cover portrait of Commander Charles R. Samson, of the Royal Flying Corps. The linked battles of Eastern France. The Course of events from the Marne to the Aisne. Centerfold artwork entitled "Contrasts in the Great War - The Awful Thunder of the Guns and the Beneficent work of the Army Medical Corps". Photos and Illustrations: The Aga Khan; Extensive plans for the comfort of the travelling Kaiser; British Armoured Car; The French '75' and its inventor Colonel Dupont; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Official Programme of the 1990 Lombard RAC Rally.
1974réf. RWILPRO00TWNP 1974. Very Good. Wilson Wm. M. The Scribbler and Old Bus Driver. Provo Utah: Early Pictorial History: Nostalgic Voyage into the Past. NP: NP 1974. reprint. Illustrated. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good. Two inspirational labels a tipped in historic note a folded Open Letter to the Bus Students and an inscription from Wilson appear on front endsheet. NP hardcover books
1990réf. 3113736Kiel: Nieswand Verlag. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Metal-bound card covers. 3926048417 . First Edition. SIGNED by bebop jazz pianist and composer Russ Freeman who also contributes to text on title page. 43pp. 13 1/4" x 19" Text in German and English. Near fine in over-size card covers bound by metal rail. Trace of foxing at blank preliminaries. Couple tiny spots on rear cover. ; 13 1/4" X 19" . Nieswand Verlag. unknown
56 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1953 Mercury Monterey Custom Coupe inside front cover; Life with Five Governors-General (part 1 of 2) - the Bessboroughs, the Byngs and the Willingdons; The Binghams Came to Blows (fiction); Who will succeed Sir Winston Churchill?; How to sell a house (humour); Tom Thomson - The Rebel Painter of the Pine Woods - article with photos and colour reproduction of "The Pointers"; The Keys to the Car (fiction); Barrister Arthur Martin, QC - His clients never hang; The Corpse That Hoaxed the Nazis (conclusion) - the elaborate story of how the Allies tricked the Nazis into thinking Sardinia would be invaded, rather than Sicily; Fantastic 'mom and apple pie' General Motors of Canada centerfold colour illustration shows a 'Happy Community" - smiling pedestrians, sunny sky and roads full of GM of Canada cars; Gorgeous full-page colour ad for a yellow Oldsmobile '98' Holiday Coupe; uncommon ad for IEL (Industrial Engineering Limited) power chain saws; Interesting colour ad for Atlas tires on back cover shows the 61 license plates of the US states and Canadian provinces; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of kids roller skating by Russell Sambrook; News bits include - The Basic Need is Goodwill, Life Goes On, The Right of Free (Speech) Utterance, Arguing That Gets Nowhere, The Taks of Re-Confederation, Austria and Tariffs, A Poet's Obituary - Gabriele d'Annunzio; Very nice one-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad for their St. Lawrence Seaway service; Black Gold in Our Empire's Defence - fascinating photo-illustrated article on the world's oil industry; The Shot at Dusk (short story); The Fatted Calf (short story); Love is a Winged Thing (short story); Salvage at Scapa Flow - photo-illlustrated article on German battleships - sunk by their own officers in 1919 - which end their days in British Dry-Dock; Sunrunner's Madness; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part III of this short story); Putt-Putting - photo-illustrated article on power boating, with photo of Doug Fonda, U.S. High-point outboard champion; Nice one-page Colgate toothpage ad features the Dionne Quints; Land of Wish-it-Were (verse); Classy one-page photo ad for the 1938 Chevrolet; Nice one-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Palmolive soap ad features photo of Mrs. Clarence Beairsto of Winnipeg; Parker Vacumatic pen ad features photo of author Kenneth Roberts; Investment news; Movie news with photos of Ann Gillis, Rita Cansino, Dixie Dunbar, Phyllis Brooks, Donald Barry, Tony Martin, John Hall and Gordon Jones; Lux soap ad features photos of Loretta Young and Irene Dunne; Nostalgic half-page ad by the Canadian Association of Ice Industries, Inc. includes photo of man placing block of ice into icebox; (fridge); Exhibit 'A' - Your husband; Article on raising a son; Cooking article; Nice one-page Frigidaire fridge ad includes photo of man holding their new silent 'meter-miser'; World Sayings; Handsome colour ad for the De Luxe Ford V-8 for 1938 shows maroon car in driveway with car jockey speaking to woman of the house; Nostalgic back cover colour ad for the Simmons Slumber King bed spring; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
2007réf. Q-0595426794iUniverse 2007-07-09. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! iUniverse paperback
réf. 1967687021.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2025réf. x-1967687021Your Life Destiny LLC 2025. Hardcover. New. 307 pages. 6.00x0.89x9.00 inches. Your Life Destiny, LLC hardcover
réf. 1967687005.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1811réf. 0012294Hardin County Kentucky Elizabethville. Good with no dust jacket. 1811. Non-Book. On offer is an original 1811 manuscript documenting the financial machinery of government in early Kentucky and the involvement of some of the state's most prominent pioneers. At the center of the document is William Withers an early settler of strategically situated West Point and Hardin County sheriff from 1811 to 1812 entrusted with collecting and remitting the county's public revenues to the Commonwealth. The document records the $10000 state-revenue bond required of Withers upon becoming sheriff of Hardin County in 1811. Acknowledged in court on January 14 1811 Withers and his seven sureties all exceptionally prominent early settlers jointly guaranteed that he or his deputy would properly collect account for and remit every tax interest payment and other sum owed to the Commonwealth during the year. Before professional bonding companies and centralized tax departments Kentucky's county sheriffs personally collected the taxes and other public money owed to the Commonwealth. To protect the state against loss a sheriff was required to enter into a substantial bond supported by financially responsible local sureties. The sureties form a remarkable cross-section of early Kentucky's frontier governing class. They include: Benjamin Helm former sheriff and county clerk James Crutcher Merchant judge and legislator Samuel Stevenson Legislator Christopher Miller and Adam Miller brothers from a prominent pioneer family with Christopher a noted frontier scout who later served as magistrate legislator and sheriffDaniel Waide Elizabethtown innkeeper postmaster academy trustee and future state senator Christopher Bush father of Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln Note: At the date of the bond Sarah was still married to Daniel Johnston; eight years later she married Thomas Lincoln and became Abraham Lincoln's stepmother. Biographical sketches of the sureties plus William Withers himself can be found at the conclusion of the listing. The document captures state administrative processes and the personal stakes of accepting prominent roles and responsibility in early 19th century America. These men were not merely endorsing Withers's appointment but pledging their own estates to secure his handling of Kentucky's public money. An excerpt from the document reads: "We bind our selves our heirs Executors and administrators Jointly & Severally firmly by these presents. "The recto is a contemporary clerk's manuscript copy of the bond including six of the subscription names and written indications " Seal " rather than six individual autograph signatures. The verso however bears the names Christopher Miller and Daniel Waide. The hands seem different than that of the recto so it is possible that the names on the verso are signatures of Miller and Waide though this is unconfirmed. The docket reads: William WithersTo Shffs BondCommonwealth1811 January CourtackdCopiedThe docket records the bond's acknowledgment in the January 1811 court and its entry into the official county records. Rather than an isolated financial instrument the manuscript preserves both the administrative process and the personal network through which public revenue was secured in frontier Kentucky. Biographical Notes of Men Named in the BondWilliam WithersWilliam Withers was Hardin County sheriff from 1811 through 1812 and was responsible for collecting and remitting the county's public revenues. He belonged to the early West Point settlement at the confluence of the Ohio and Salt rivers. By 1800 two of his daughters had married Robert Bleakley and William Montgomery Irish-born merchants who opened an Elizabethtown dry-goods store. Withers was thus connected by family to the commercial community whose members helped guarantee his bond. Benjamin HelmBenjamin Helm was one of early Elizabethtown's principal administrators. He qualified as Hardin County's first surveyor in 1793 became an original town trustee served as sheriff in 1807 and was county clerk from about 1800 until 1817. He erected Elizabethtown's first brick house riding ninety miles to Lexington for its wrought nails and later became the first president of the town's independent bank. His clerk's office recorded this bond although a deputy may have prepared the copy. James CrutcherJames Crutcher was a prominent merchant cattle dealer tavern proprietor judge and legislator. Appointed one of Elizabethtown's original trustees in 1796 he built a tavern beside the public square in 1798 and marked it with a sign bearing a lion rampant—the establishment later operated by Daniel Waide. Crutcher also served with Helm and Waide as a Hardin Academy trustee. Six weeks after this bond Daniel and Sarah Bush Johnston conveyed a 730-acre tract to him. Samuel StevensonSamuel Stevenson—also recorded as Stephenson—became the first teacher of Hardin Academy when its schoolhouse opened in 1806. The academy served an Elizabethtown community of only about 300 people emphasizing how prominent its teacher would have been locally. Stevenson subsequently became a tavernkeeper merchant and Kentucky legislator. In 1812 he again acted as a financial guarantor joining John Canady as surety on William Vittitow's $1000 constable's bond. Christopher BushChristopher Bush belonged to the Bush family identified among the early settlers of Severns Valley by 1782. A landowner and Hardin County constable he was remembered by Haycraft as an industrious man with a large family. His daughter Sarah Bush Johnston was then married to Daniel Johnston; in 1819 she married Thomas Lincoln and became Abraham Lincoln's stepmother. Her February 1811 land transaction with James Crutcher directly connects the Bush family with another surety named in the bond. Adam MillerAdam Miller belonged to a pioneer family recorded among the Severns Valley settlers by 1782. He was a son of German-born settler Ernest Miller and a brother of Nicholas and fellow obligor Christopher Miller. According to Haycraft Adam was captured in his youth and remained within an Indigenous community for approximately fourteen years. Unlike his politically prominent brothers he apparently held no major public office and was remembered instead as a quiet respected man and church member. Christopher MillerCaptured by Shawnees as a youth Christopher Miller lived among them for years and became fluent in their languages and customs. His knowledge later made him valuable to General Anthony Wayne as a messenger and scout and in 1796 he accompanied a delegation of Indigenous leaders to Philadelphia. In 1819 the Kentucky legislature petitioned Congress to compensate Miller for this service noting that he was then poor and supporting a large family. He later became a legislator magistrate and Hardin County sheriff. Daniel WaideDaniel Waide was an Elizabethtown innkeeper Hardin Academy trustee and postmaster. He operated the "Sign of the Lion" tavern built by James Crutcher in 1798 and helped develop the property into the later Eagle House. He served on the academy board with Crutcher and Benjamin Helm while postal records identify him as Elizabethtown postmaster beginning January 1 1811 thirteen days before this bond. Waide later entered the Kentucky Senate; tax rolls also record him as an enslaver. SourcesBrown Stephen A. "A Conversation with Abraham Lincoln. " Kentucky Humanities Fall 2013 pp. 6–9. Hardin County Court. Order Book C 1812 p. 2. Transcribed by Patricia O'Connor for Kentucky GenWeb. Hardin County Sheriff's Office. "History of the Hardin County Sheriff's Office. " Accessed August 2 2026."Hardin County Kentucky. " American History and Genealogy Project. Accessed August 2 2026."Hardin County Kentucky Timeline of Events. " Genealogy Trails History Group. Accessed August 2 2026. Haycraft Samuel Jr. A History of Elizabethtown Kentucky and Its Surroundings. Written 1869. Elizabethtown Kentucky: Woman's Club of Elizabethtown 1921. Hutton Paul Andrew. "William Wells: Frontier Scout and Indian Agent. " Indiana Magazine of History 74 no. 3 September 1978 : 183–222. Kentucky: Counties & Towns: Elizabethtown—Haycraft's History. Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection undated. National Park Service. "Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. " U. S. Department of the Interior. Accessed August 2 2026. Sweeney Mary Angela. "Postal Communication in the South-West 1789–1813." Master's thesis University of Louisville 1928. Warren Louis A. Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years Seven to Twenty-One 1816–1830. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959. Winstead Mrs. Thomas Durham comp. Chronicles of Hardin County Kentucky 1766–1974. 1974. "Hardin County Kentucky Timeline of Events " transcribed by the Genealogy Trails Transcription Team. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author .
1989réf. AME_9780806725512KensingtoPublishinCorporation 1989. N/A. Hardcover. New/New. KensingtoPublishinCorporation hardcover